Houston's Oldest Law School Gets a New Name

© 2016 The Texas Lawbook.By Brooks Igo (June 22) – Houston’s oldest law school announced today that it is changing its name in an effort to honor its birthplace and boost its regional and national profile. South Texas College of Law, which was founded in downtown Houston in 1923, will now be called the Houston College of Law. Dean Donald Guter said an ad-hoc committee made up of alumni, faculty, sitting judges and board members worked with SimpsonScarborough, a higher education consultancy, to decide on the new name. “We really needed to get Houston in our name because this is our heritage,” said Guter, who has served as president and dean of the law school for nearly 10 years. “We are located in the fourth largest city in the country and we weren’t taking advantage of it.” Leaders of the law school wanted a name that better represented the school’s downtown location. “Our students are within walking distance of some of the nation’s biggest law firms and the city’s courthouses are in our backyard,” J. Ken Johnson, chairman of the Houston College of Law’s board of directors, said in a statement. The nearly-100-year-old law school has produced a number of…